Plain dealing is easiest and best. [ Jane Porter ]

In simple and pure soul I come to you. [ William Shakespeare ]

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

I can promise to be candid, but I cannot promise to be impartial. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. [ Madame de Stael ]

Candor may be considered as a compound of justice and the love of truth. [ T. Abercrombie ]

He speaks home; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis great - 'tis manly to disdain disguise. It shows our spirit, or it proves out strength. [ Young ]

There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. [ Tacitus ]

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. [ St. Pierre ]

Fortitude, justice, and candor are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion. [ Sydney Smith ]

Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament, and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability. [ Bentzel-Sternaft ]

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. [ Dryden ]

The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty - a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]